Delphi and PostgreSQL

2016-05-13 00:19  LibPQData      [permalink]

Searching for an alternative way to use PostgreSQL from Delphi? In the spirit of the other as-light-as-it-gets database connector wrappers, I've converted the header(s) to the LibPQ dll. See the LibPQ and LibPQData units in this repository:

https://github.com/stijnsanders/DataLank#datalank 

To start an attempt to move to something more like a generic database layer, I've started this DataLank idea, but it needs more work. Actually I don't intend to develop it all the way into a full-fledged data-layer. Specialities of each specific database solution are so diverse and important, that I really don't want to hide them between an opaque abstraction layer. I want a database connector wrapper to be as light as possible, but also to allow access to the underlying technology. The main point for using DataLank, is to have less work changing DB's by using TDataConnection and TQueryResult types, but not no work. Adapting the used SQL to a different dialect will probably involve updating many (or all) calls the database anyway. But I'll post about that later when I put some more time in. (And perhaps write a libmysql.dll wrapper first...)

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